Your November Spirit of Mazda Winner

Five new Mazda team members were nominated for the Spirit of Mazda award for the month of November. Your votes have been tallied and the winner has emerged:

Mazda congratulates Tara Johns for being recognized by the Mazda Motorsports' community as the individual who is most deserving of representing the The Spirit of Mazda for the month of November. Johns joins seven other Mazda racers or team owners who have been selected since the Spirit of Mazda award commenced.

Selected by Mazda Motorsports and SportsCar magazine to help develop the 2016 MX-5 car for Street Touring R competition, Tara Johns has proven she has the talent behind the wheel; she had garnered four championships heading into the 2015 Tire Rack Solo National Championships. When she was nominated and then won the Spirit of Mazda award for the month of November, it was no surprise to us at Mazda. Johns co-drove the 2016 MX-5 with four-time champ Ron Bauer and Dr. Erik Strelnieks, who has more than a dozen Pro Solo Championships and more than half a dozen Solo II National Championships. To gain more insight into Mazda's core values that Tara Johns embodies, we turned to Dr. Strelnieks...